WARSAW (Reuters) – A Polish artist who exhibited an image of a man’s
p**** attached to a cross broke the Roman Catholic country’s law on
blasphemy, a court has ruled, according to Poland’s top-selling daily on
Saturday.

Gazeta Wyborcza said the conviction of artist Danuta Nieznalska in the
Baltic port of Gdansk was the first known instance in Poland of anyone
being convicted of offending religious sensibilities.

“The cross is a symbol of suffering, because on it Christ died. There is
no doubt that this cross has been desecrated,” the paper quoted as Judge
Tomasz Zielinski as saying.

In addition to a 2,000 zloty ($500) fine, the judge imposed on
Nieznalska a six-month foreign travel ban, saying her legal notoriety
would likely increase her demand in international art circles.

“I am shocked by such a severe sentence,” the paper quoted the artist as
saying after the verdict. “The court was totally biased. The judge
admitted he was no art expert.”

For some reason, on Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:34:40 GMT,
u602813720@spawnkill.ip-mobilphone.net (Armageddon Watch) came around
and stated thus:

Just out of curiosity, what did they do with the offending artwork?

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